Categories Quotes

Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

I have successfully avoided being stereotyped into a specific category. I've worked very hard at that, and I'm proud of not being easily lumped into anybody's preconceived notions or expectations.

As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.

My main concern is quality and I think there is quality to be found in all categories of filmmaking.

I've worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was a kid there weren't.

If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened up.

If I'm interviewing someone I need to know everything about them - I do these massive spider diagrams. Everything under different categories, and certain questions in other categories.

We can never know... But maybe it's because no black actors merited being nominated.Why put people into categories?

I don't put categories on music, myself. So either people go with it or they don't, and sometimes the names sound a little silly.

The plant goes down. The industry is weaker. The price of the commodity has lagged. Any of those things can push people into unemployment or lower income categories, and that hurts.

I don't want to be lumped into any categories.

We are in the more blessed category, the upper class who lived by faith and believed even though we hadn't seen!

Everyone is dividing based on demographic categories.

I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

To me, everything in the world comes down to two categories: "about-ness" and "is-ness". "About" represents or describes something, while "Is" is the thing itself.

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.

One problem with how we think about the Bible is that people tend to jam it into narrower categories, when in fact it is many things all at once.

Donald Trump seems to think it is within his rights to trample the First Amendment, to disdain the press, to punish protesters or flag-burners, to ban ethnic categories of immigrants, and so on.

When it comes to security, when it comes to ISIS, when it comes to the military, every single category I'm leading, like, by a lot.

[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication.

I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.

Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.

Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.

Categories are gibberish to me. I understand - it helps people organize their thoughts. But you can't go too far with it.

I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy's stage presence.

Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.

The key factor in the vodka category is smoothness, and smoothness is what our vodka has.

Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.

My view is that we will still have many different categories of cars in the future.

I was often asked how one could even make sense of this. Isn't the category of knowledge something that we project upon the world, rather than something that we discover in it?

Our history is based on extending the brand to categories within the guardrails of Starbucks.

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.

What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.

I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.

I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.

Back in the day I was doing runway, editorial, advertising, spokesmodeling, and public appearances. Those are five different categories.

I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance.

I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent to children.

Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people.

Foreign news is one of the most expensive kinds of news and, unlike in colonial days, one of the categories with the lowest levels of audience interest.

I think making features has got to be in the addiction category.

What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.

I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.

Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus.

The categories of A-minus through C-plus [films] are completely dominated by Hollywood.